Comments on: Wednesday Things http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/ Writings on sustainable, conscious and thrifty living Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Beany http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-769 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:58 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-769 That's a really good point. I am just not the sort of person who deals well with open ended anything. Start/end points helps me with my compulsive planning. Its probably my more annoying habit that everything has to be pre-planned. No room for spontaneity here. I really need to learn how to let my hair down and I'm hoping my foray into obvious hippiedom (as opposed to stealth hippiedom that I practice now) will change this habit of mine. For me not having money coming in is a huge source of stress. So I am not really concerned that I don't have a job as much as I don't have any sort of cash coming in once I/we stop working. Neither of us are aware of any inheritance piles that could be ours tomorrow. And money is just something I constantly worry about. That’s a really good point. I am just not the sort of person who deals well with open ended anything. Start/end points helps me with my compulsive planning. Its probably my more annoying habit that everything has to be pre-planned. No room for spontaneity here. I really need to learn how to let my hair down and I’m hoping my foray into obvious hippiedom (as opposed to stealth hippiedom that I practice now) will change this habit of mine.

For me not having money coming in is a huge source of stress. So I am not really concerned that I don’t have a job as much as I don’t have any sort of cash coming in once I/we stop working. Neither of us are aware of any inheritance piles that could be ours tomorrow. And money is just something I constantly worry about.

]]> by: natalie http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-768 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:08 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-768 "I somehow have faith that things are just going to work out. This could also be the early stages of delusion, but I’m trying to be positive for now." - Ha! I love it. Even if faith *is* the early stages of delusion, it works doesn't it? And I think not having a job lined up on the West Coast is going to turn out to be a good thing. Let's say you did have one. Then your trip would have specific starting and ending points/dates already predetermined. Your journey would just be the trip between start and finish. Without that concrete end, really your journey is everything that happens after you leave your apartment on X date. Logistically having a job lined up seems easier. But maybe not. What if you two decide to get sidetracked for a few weeks or months or ... Why stress about getting somewhere at a certain time if you don't have to! “I somehow have faith that things are just going to work out. This could also be the early stages of delusion, but I’m trying to be positive for now.” - Ha! I love it. Even if faith *is* the early stages of delusion, it works doesn’t it?

And I think not having a job lined up on the West Coast is going to turn out to be a good thing. Let’s say you did have one. Then your trip would have specific starting and ending points/dates already predetermined. Your journey would just be the trip between start and finish. Without that concrete end, really your journey is everything that happens after you leave your apartment on X date.

Logistically having a job lined up seems easier. But maybe not. What if you two decide to get sidetracked for a few weeks or months or … Why stress about getting somewhere at a certain time if you don’t have to!

]]> by: arduous http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-766 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:26:40 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-766 Yes, but I will still be here on them innernets. YOU on the other hand will be all biking all the time! Yes, but I will still be here on them innernets. YOU on the other hand will be all biking all the time!

]]> by: Beany http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-765 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:02:15 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-765 arduous: I think you're the one who is really leaving. I'm still going to be lounging around in this country. I mean London? I should be the one wailing away. So waah :( Jennifer: I am being inundated with craigslist users' emails today as I posted many free stuff posts. Don't these people have jobs? Where they do things besides surfing the innernets? Thanks for the positive thoughts. arduous: I think you’re the one who is really leaving. I’m still going to be lounging around in this country. I mean London? I should be the one wailing away. So waah :(

Jennifer: I am being inundated with craigslist users’ emails today as I posted many free stuff posts. Don’t these people have jobs? Where they do things besides surfing the innernets?

Thanks for the positive thoughts.

]]> by: Jennifer http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-764 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:56:32 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-764 Sounds like, despite it being a bit stressful, things are falling into place for your big trip/move. It's okay that some of these things fall by the wayside though - there are only so many hours in a day, and well, certain things like your sanity have to take precedence. I hear you on the college degree. I graduated and it took me well over 6 months to find something (I too am a bean counter, not exactly what I thought I would do with a degree in psychology, but the APA disgusts me so we'll leave that one alone). I'll keep my fingers crossed that something decent will come along for you soon. Hang in there, you'll be blissfully biking (hopefully not through any dust storms in Kansas) before you know it! Sounds like, despite it being a bit stressful, things are falling into place for your big trip/move. It’s okay that some of these things fall by the wayside though - there are only so many hours in a day, and well, certain things like your sanity have to take precedence.

I hear you on the college degree. I graduated and it took me well over 6 months to find something (I too am a bean counter, not exactly what I thought I would do with a degree in psychology, but the APA disgusts me so we’ll leave that one alone). I’ll keep my fingers crossed that something decent will come along for you soon.

Hang in there, you’ll be blissfully biking (hopefully not through any dust storms in Kansas) before you know it!

]]> by: arduous http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-763 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:48:36 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-763 Ahahahahaha! Don't leave me! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease! Ahahahahaha! Don’t leave me! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

]]> by: Beany http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-760 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:55:34 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-760 I thought the salad thing was a fluke...but now I know better, all brown people are alike. I thought the salad thing was a fluke…but now I know better, all brown people are alike.

]]> by: arduous http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-759 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:47:26 +0100 http://beancounter.blogsome.com/2008/08/20/wednesday-things/#comment-759 Oh my god! I also am working the day before I leave for the money!! Oh my god! I also am working the day before I leave for the money!!

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